Great Expectations (1981)
Violence and Victorian gentility meet in this powerful adaptations of one of Dickens's greatest creations, his most piercing examination of upward mobility.
Great Expectations: Season 1 - 13 Episode s
1x1 - Episode 1
October 4, 1981
Young Pip lives with his tyrranical sister and her blacksmith husband, Joe until a nightmarish encounter with an escaped convict, Magwitch, forces him to visit the stately Satis House.
1x2 - Episode 2 (1)
October 11, 1981
1x3 - Episode 3 (2)
October 18, 1981
1x4 - Episode 4
October 25, 1981
1x5 - Episode 5
November 1, 1981
1x6 - Episode 6
November 8, 1981
1x7 - Episode 7
November 15, 1981
1x8 - Episode 8
November 22, 1981
1x9 - Episode 9
November 29, 1981
1x10 - Episode 10
December 6, 1981
1x11 - Episode 11
December 13, 1981
1x12 - Episode 12
December 20, 1981
1x13 - Episode 13
December 27, 1981
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